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Definition: Fumbler |
FumblerNoun1. Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fumbler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | FUMBLER. An old or impotent man. To fumble, also means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual operation. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FumblerSynonyms: blunderer (n), botcher (n), bumbler (n), bungler (n), butcher (n), fuckup (n), sad sack (n), stumbler (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bungler | Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fumbler |
| Specialty definitions using "fumbler": BUSS BEGGAR. (references) |
| "Fumbler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fumbler" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fumbler | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fumbler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | непохватен човек. (various references) | |
German | Stümper (amateur, botcher, bungler, cobblestone, fumblers). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lüke (dumbo, nut, nutter, sappy), kétbalkezes ember (butter-fingers), kétbalkezes (blunderer, blundering, bumbling, butter-fingered, fumbling, ham-fisted, lopsided, lubberly), impotens (impotent), esetlen ember (bumpkin, clod-hopper, gawk), ügyefogyott ember (backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, gawk, klutz, lame duck), ügyefogyott (bumbling, galoot, helpless, resourceless, shiftless). (various references) | |
Korean | """ 사람. (various references) | |
Manx | fer moandagh (stammerer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umblerfay.(various references) | |
Romanian | persoanã neîndemânaticã, încurcã-lume (marplot). (various references) | |
Swedish | klåpare (blunderer, botcher, bungler, dabbler, dub, muff, slob). (various references) | |
Turkish | beceriksiz kimse (bungler, duffer, gawk). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người vụng về (booby, bumpkin, butter-fingers, lout, lubber, muff, swabber, swobber), người lóng ngóng (butter-fingers). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fumbler": fumblers. (additional references) | |
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"Fumbler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bumbler, fimble, fumblier, mumbler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fumbler" (pronounced 'Fum"bler'): Ambler, assembler, Brabbler, Cabbler, Cobbler, Dabbler, Fribbler, gambler, Garbler, gobbler, grumbler, Marbler, Mumbler, Nibbler, Nobbler, Quibbler, Rambler, Resembler, Rumbler, Scambler, scrambler, Squabbler, Stabler, stumbler, troubler, tumbler, Warbler. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-l-m-r-u" | |
-1 letter: fumble, lumber, rumble. | |
-2 letters: bluer, blume, brume, femur, flume, fumer, lemur, ruble, umbel, umber. | |
-3 letters: berm, blue, blur, bumf, burl, flub, flue, fuel, fume, furl, lube, lure, merl, mule, mure, rube, rule. | |
-4 letters: bel, bum, bur, elf, elm, emf, emu, fem, fer, feu, flu, fub, fur, leu, lum, mel, reb, ref, rem, rub, rue. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-f-l-m-r-u" | |
+1 letter: fumblers. | |
+3 letters: tumblerful, umbellifer. | |
+4 letters: tumblerfuls, umbellifers. | |
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